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Kadbanwadi Grasslands

March 30, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Ever since grassland safaris were launched several months (years?) ago, we’ve been meaning to go. Although we’ve been on countless safaris in the forest, the grasslands were new to us, and the idea of seeing a whole range of birds, in addition to the possibility of hyenas, foxes and wolves was exciting! Finally, last week, […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: birdwatching, Common Pratincole, fox, grassland, Indian Courser, Indian Eagle Owl, Kadbanwadi, Kumbhargaon, safari, striped hyena, wildlife

Bhigwan 2018

December 28, 2018 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

It was 8 in the morning. We’d woken up at 4:45 and driven over a hundred kilometres to Bhigwan. We waited a long while for our boat, and as we waited, we looked at terns, gulls, storks and stilts around us. And then, eventually, we boarded a boat and made our way across the waters […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Bhigwan, birdwatching, flamingo, ibis, painted stork, Woolly-necked stork

Bhigwan

February 23, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

My European travelogue has to wait; I went to Bhigwan yesterday. A journey of two hours brought us to Bhigwan, which has a lake that is roughly east-south-east of Pune. Flamingos, they say, come to Bhigwan, and stay there till the end of February. We left home at 5 in the morning, but by the […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Bhigwan, birdwatching, flamingo, painted stork, wildlife